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EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK:
MOST PEOPLE TALK BULLSHIT:
One Primate's Search For
Intelligent Life (EXODUS)
Insanity Or God Given Ability?
It was during
my time at the trailer park that I started thinking again about
the extra-ordinary mystical experience that I had at Cherry
Point. I felt that perhaps achieving these states of
non-ordinary reality would be crucial with helping me to improve
my physical and mental performance, and vice versa.
At night before
I went to sleep, I started to increase my ability to “extend”
myself beyond my body, although most of the time I failed and
fell right to sleep. I would come close, but something would
startle me and jolt me back into my body. Usually, I dozed off
and then later in the night, the same symptoms would come over
me again. Normally, not as strong as my first experience, and as
intense as the one at Cherry Point; still it was unmistakable.
After reading or hearing about these experiences, a lot of
people would think of a number of mental dysfunctions that I
could have been suffering from.
It’s
understandable. There are various types of schizophrenia, sleep
paralysis, temporal lobe epilepsy, as well as an over-active
imagination, hallucinations caused by environmental factors,
extrapolation and the desire to see wishful thinking manifested,
et cetera. We are all subject to most and I can cite some
situations where the likelihood is, some of my experiences were
due to some of the reasons listed above.
But, for me, an
OBE rarely happened during broad daylight, while fully awake and
alert. They occurred on restless nights when I could not sleep
and, yes, they have happened when I was waking up.
I have had
sleep paralysis while waking from dreams and sometimes the
dreams have continued. During these moments, there are none of
the other bodily or sensory sensations that I have experienced
during an OBE. I have wrestled with those other possibilities
and have, for the most part, weeded them out. Mental illness
does not run in my family, I did not tamper with drugs.
It’s true that
I had been deprived of food and forced to endure a variety of
deprivations and hardships, but during those periods of life I
did not experience anything remotely mystical. Perhaps I was too
concerned with survival to give it a thought. Perhaps it was
because these mystical experiences are more likely to happen
when a person is living more holistically.
In addition,
I’ve had x-rays of my brain that show I’m free of any gross
abnormalities, such as tumors, lesions, or missing sections. I
have also subjected myself to extensive personality and mental
tests, as well as a variety of tests to see how truthful I am,
given by experts in the mental health field. Also, what I have
experienced has been written in thousands of publications ad
nauseam, in every culture throughout the world. In addition,
I have spoken to countless people who have experienced many of
the states I have and the majority of them got along quite well
in the world.
Regardless,
many people would still feel more comfortable labeling me as mad
as a hatter. So be it, but the fact is it would be years before
I truly descended into madness. Aside from this, the pursuit and
experiences that are questionable seem to add more color and
depth to every aspect of my life.
At any rate,
whenever I got stuck in my training, this type of meditation
often helped me to get past plateaus.
Within a month of my vigorous routine I increased all of my
lifts by forty pounds in the same rep range at the same
bodyweight. To a lot of people who are uninitiated to weight
lifting, this may not seem like a lot, but I can assure you
performing ten repetitions with two hundred and fifteen pounds
in the standing front press at such a light bodyweight is world
class level, especially back in 1977. Anyway, both
types of my training seemed to complement each other.
MOST PEOPLE TALK BULLSHIT:
One Primate's Search For Intelligent Life
(GENESIS)
MOST PEOPLE TALK BULLSHIT:
One Primate's Search For Intelligent Life
(REVELATIONS)
MOST PEOPLE TALK BULLSHIT:
One Primate's Search For Intelligent Life
(JUDGMENT DAY)
THE MARINES: GOD'S CHOSEN
WARRIORS
VINCE'S GYM
ADVENTURES IN MARINE BIOLOGY
CONVERSATIONS WITH NEO
NEO TEACHES ME THE ART OF WAR
& PEACE;
His Version of The Matrix
MEMORIES OF MY FATHERS
ZEN & THE ART OF RESISTANCE
TRAINING:
A Yogic & Scientific Approach To Weight
Lifting
ZEN & THE BIOLOGY OF
TRANSCENDENCE:
The First Matrix of Psychic
Phenomena
ZEN & THE ART OF KINESIOLOGY:
The Yogic & Scientific
Approach To Movement
ZEN & YOUR ENERGY SYSTEMS
ZEN & VARIOUS ASPECTS OF
TRAINING
HOMEPAGE TO MOST PEOPLE TALK BULLSHIT:
One Primate's Search For Intelligent Life
(EXODUS)
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